Monday, September 24, 2012

The truth about the pollsFrom the Campaign to Defeat Obama

The
good people at UnskewedPolls.com have conducted a study of recent media
polls and come to a
startling conclusion: almost every single major media poll that you see
reported in the news has a significant bias in favor of Barack
Obama.

This
is how they do it: After they poll
Americans about their presidential preferences, they then go and weight
the polls to over-sample for Democrats.

In the ABC News/Washington Post
poll, for instance, they claimed that only 24% of Americans would were
Republicans. And so they made their presidential election polls to
reflect a turnout that would be just 24% Republican. We know this is
all complete nonsense.

This is the chart of how the media polls would be if the media's bias towards Obama was neutralized, and a
proper weight of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, etc... would be reflected.

Every single poll when the bias is
removed shows that the Romney/Ryan ticket actually holds a lead over the Obama/Biden ticket.

Carter: Venezuelan election system 'best in world'

Jimmy on U.S.: 'We have one of the worst'

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last week declared the election process in Venezuela is “the best in the world.”

According to the left-leaning news and views site VenezuelaAnalysis.com,
Carter also said in the U.S., “We have one of the worst election
processes in the world, and it’s almost entirely because of the
excessive influx of money.”

Venezuela, led by socialist dictator Hugo Chavez since 1999, has
often been accused of anything but fair elections, and, according to a
Reuters report, the country is ranked by Transparency International as
the second-most corrupt nation in the Americas, after Haiti.

Yet in 2004, Venezuela began implementing a voting system involving
touch-screen machines that also provide a paper receipt of selections to
voters. Apparently, the system has impressed Carter.

During the kickoff of the Annual Conversations at the Carter Center
series, the former U.S. president declared, “As a matter of fact, of the
92 elections we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in
Venezuela is the best in the world.”

The praise was welcomed by Chavez only a couple of weeks before the
nation’s elections, where he faces significant competition from
challenger Henrique Capriles.

“He said one true thing,” Chavez said of Carter, “because he had seen
it for himself, that the Venezuelan electoral system is, well, we say
it is one of the best in the world. He said ‘the best in the world.’”

Chavez’ challenger, Capriles, earlier this month faced corruption
questions himself when government lawmakers released a video of an aide
taking cash in suspect circumstances.

Yet Capriles fired the aide and argued Chavez couldn’t afford to do
the same: “If this government and its candidate took on corruption,
they’d have no ministers left.”

On Oct. 7, Venezuelans will elect a president for the 2013-2019 term
from a ballot of five candidates, including Chavez and Capriles.

A few questions for ABC-NBC-CBS-NYT-NPR-CNN-WASHPO-LAT

You’re the elite, the cream of the
national press corps (That’s pronounced “core” rather than “corpse,”
which the president botched recently, but which you all found far less
important than the “e” that’s not at the end of potato when a Republican
VP stumbled). Thanks for coming. I invited you here to ask when’s the
last time any of you fearless pros asked the president as direct and
challenging a question as these two hardballs he faced last week at
Univision, the Spanish language network:

"I think up to 100 Mexicans might have
died (in Operation Fast and Furious) and also American agent Brian
Terry. There's a report that 14 agents were responsible for the
operation, but shouldn't the attorney general, Eric Holder…have known
about that and if he didn't, should you fire him?"

"You promised [immigration reform] and a promise is a promise. And with all due respect, you didn't keep that promise."

Those are some respectful zingers doing
just what the press is supposed to: holding political leaders
accountable for their words and actions. So, can you think of any tough
question you’ve put to him lately?

As in, sometime this term?

You don’t really want to look like lap dog sycophants, do you? Good. Then here are a few suggestions:

Ask him if his policies toward the Middle East may have contributed to current violence there.

Specifically, did his decision to
pressure Mubarak out of Egypt and to forcibly remove Qaddafi from Libya
enable radical elements hostile to the US to rise to power?

Ask him if his overall approach to engaging the Muslim world has produced positive results.

Ask him why, after the attacks on
Egyptian, Libyan, and other embassies, his administration immediately
asserted the fiction they were spontaneous demonstrations of religious
grievance at an obscure internet clip critical of Mohammed.

Ask why for over a week it denied there
was a deliberate targeting of America by terrorist groups on the
anniversary of September 11th. Ask him if it’s true the
State Department had warnings of likely attacks in the Middle East at
least 48 hours before they occurred.

Ask him, with or without warnings, why
are American embassies in some of the most dangerous places on earth
essentially unguarded? Will secretary of State Clinton be held
accountable for this failure to protect American personnel?

Speaking of Obama team players, will any
of you professional skeptics ask Harry Reid if he plans to apologize to
Mitt Romney for falsely accusing him of paying no taxes for 10 years?
And if he doesn’t, then why not?

Will any of you ask the president how he
can serve all Americans, as he pointedly told David Letterman is his
job, if he doesn’t even know what the national debt is or what he has
added to it?

When the president declares he “saved the
auto industry,” will you ask him if he thinks Ford Motor Company and
the American plants of Toyota, Honda, and Nissan aren’t also part of the
American auto industry?

Ask him—if Chrysler and GM couldn’t pay
their bills--what he thinks would have happened if bankruptcy law had
been allowed to operate in a normal way? Would Americans’ demand for
cars have been less?

Wouldn’t Chrysler’s and GM’s assets have been sold
in an orderly way to leaner competitors or start up companies, who would
have created new jobs and joined other suppliers to serve the American
market?

Will you ask if it isn’t it more accurate
to say he saved the ruinous pay, benefits, and pensions of the United
Auto Workers that GM and Chrysler employed, and did it by lawlessly
ripping equity out of the hands of secured creditors and bondholders and
gifting it to the labor unions?

And, isn’t it true that the happy talk a
while back about GM paying back its loans was highly misleading, as in
essentially false? That wasn’t income from auto sales, was it, just
federal stimulus grants that GM turned around and handed back to the
government? And don’t taxpayers still hold a major chunk of GM ownership
in billions of devalued stock? And isn’t the company’s survival still
very much in doubt?

Will you ask him if this is really a
success story, or likely a terribly costly, vote-buying boondoggle that
just hasn’t played out yet?

Those are just a few starters. If you all
think about it, there are a lot of fastballs you could throw over the
left edge of the plate—if your peripheral vision reaches there.

Even The Fed Doesn’t Believe It’ll Work

Breaking news: officials in our U.S. Federal Government do not know how to solve all our woes.

This actually shouldn’t be “news.” Leaders from none other than the
Federal Reserve, itself, have repeatedly admitted this in recent months.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has admitted this multiple times, and in a
variety of different contexts (a point I’ll review momentarily). But
last Wednesday, the President and C.E.O. of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas reiterated this point himself, and his announcements have largely
been ignored.

In a Speech before the Harvard Club of New York City, bank President
Richard Foster publicly restated his opposition to the Fed’s recent
decision to launch “QE3,” its third attempt in three years to use
monetary policy to stimulate the economy. Foster began his speech noting
that “with each program we undertake to venture further in that
direction (in the direction of using monetary policy as stimulus), we
are sailing deeper into uncharted waters. We are blessed at the Fed with
sophisticated econometric models and superb analysts. We can easily
conjure up plausible theories as to what we will do when it comes to our
next tack or eventually reversing course. The truth, however, is that
nobody on the committee, nor on our staffs at the Board of Governors and
the 12 Banks, really knows what is holding back the economy.”

Later in the speech, Mr. Foster noted that our economy “is already
flush with $1.6 trillion in excess private bank reserves owned by the
banking sector and held by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Trillions more
are sitting on the sidelines in corporate coffers. On top of all that, a
significant amount of underemployed cash—or fuel for investment—is
burning a hole in the pockets of money market funds and other
non-depository financial operators. This begs the question: Why would
the Fed provision to shovel billions in additional liquidity into the
economy’s boiler when so much is presently lying fallow?”

The economy is being held back despite trillions of dollars “lying
fallow,” and the highly educated experts at the Federal Reserve can’t
figure out why. Mr. Foster deserves our thanks for being so truthful –
yet we should all be concerned about his observations.

Of course, it was only three months ago when Chairman Ben Bernanke
admitted that he had “no idea” why our economy is so “fragile.” This is
the man who has overseen the lending of more than $3 trillion American
taxpayer dollars to foreign banks; the rapid-fire acquisition of the
former giant Merrill Lynch by the gargantuan Bank of America; the
multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street; and – although he
craft legislation or sign bills in to law, he nonetheless supported the
$800 billion “economic stimulus bill” from the Congress and the Obama
Administration.

And after all that – and before the latest stimulus effort announced
less than two weeks ago – the Fed Chairman nonetheless admits that he
has “no idea” what is wrong with our economy.

The talent, econometric models, and superb analysts at the Federal
Reserve notwithstanding, Americans of all stripes need to come to grips
with some basic economic realities. If it is still a goal of our country
to create wealth and opportunity for all, then we’ll have to start
demanding that our government officials think and act differently.

For example, we will not have entrepreneurs once again using those
“fallow trillions” to create new businesses and jobs in large
quantities, until we demand that government stops bullying private
enterprise.

Despite the claims at the recent Democratic National
Convention that President Obama “saved G.M” with government bailouts,
last week General Motors announced that it wants to sever ties with our
government. According to G.M. leadership, the restrictions on executive
salaries that President Obama has forced upon the company have put G.M.
at a competitive disadvantage with other car companies.

The fact that the Obama Administration would use an entire car
company to satisfy its political agenda of cutting executive salaries,
even at the expense of the company’s wellbeing, does not create a
business-friendly environment. It conveys to entrepreneurs that
President Obama’s agenda is preeminently important, and prosperity is
secondary.

And did you hear about the Gallup organization? After publishing both
political polling data and unemployment data that reflected poorly on
the President, Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod engaged Gallup in
a series of intimidating conversations demanding that Gallup change
their methodologies. Gallup didn’t budge – and mysteriously found
themselves targeted with a lawsuit from the Department of Justice
lawsuit over an “unrelated issue.”

Americans must also demand that both Washington, and Wall Street,
embrace the economic wisdom of Main Street. Most of us realize that,
just as a drunken person cannot drink himself sober, no individual,
household, nor organization can borrow and spend itself out of debt.
This reality applies to our government, as well.

Ahmadinejad: Zionists "at the end of the line"

From Jihad Watch

Note his chutzpah, in
complaining about Iran being threatened, when he has threatened Israel
so many, many times. "Ahmadinejad: Zionists Are 'At the End of the
Line,'" by Elad Benari in Israel National News, September 24 (thanks to Voice of the Copts):

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that should Israel attack his country, the Islamic Republic will retaliate.

Ahmadinejad made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Piers
Morgan. The full interview will air on Monday, but excerpts were
released on Sunday.

Asked by Morgan what his country’s response will be if it is attacked
by Israel, the Iranian President replied, “The response of Iran is
quite clear, I don't even need to explain that; any question in any
nation has the right and will indeed defend herself. But my question is
this, why should the world be managed in such a way that an individual
can allow himself to threaten a rich and deeply-rooted historical,
ancient country, such as Iran. A great country, such as Iran, based on
an excuse of his own fabrication. So anyone can do this. Another country
can say, I am guessing that country B is doing activity X, therefore I
will attack that country. Can this be a successful formula for the
management of the world?”

Morgan asked Ahmadinejad if he fears that war is imminent and whether
he fears that there will be military conflict, perhaps before the end
of this year, between Iran and Israel.

“Of course the Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much
seeking to fabricate things and I think they see themselves at the end
of the line and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new
opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors,”
Ahmadinejad responded.

The interview also focused on the protests in the Middle East over
the “Innocence of Muslims” film. Asked whether he condemned the attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador
Christopher Stevens was murdered, Ahmadinejad answered, “Fundamentally,
first of all, any action that is provocative, offends the religious
thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn. Likewise, we condemn
any type of extremism.

“Of course, what took place was ugly,” he added. “Offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly.

This has very little or nothing to do with freedom and freedom of speech. This is the weakness of and the abuse of freedom, and in many places it is a crime. It shouldn’t take place and I do hope the day will come in which politicians will not seek to offend those whom others hold holy, or sanctity.
But we also believe that this must also be resolved in a humane
atmosphere, in a participatory environment and we do not like anyone
losing their lives or being killed for any reason anywhere in the
world.”...

Obama: Israeli pressure over Iran is "noise"

From Jihad Watch / Posted by Robert Spencer

One thing must be said about
this man: he has been consistent. As has the blindness of those of his
followers who persist in believing that he is in any way pro-Israel.
"Obama brushes off Israeli pressure over Iran," from AFP, September 23:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama likened Israeli pressure
on him to draw a line in the sand over Iran's nuclear ambitions as
noise he tries to ignore, according to remarks aired Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently urged the United
States to establish what he called a "red line" regarding Tehran's
nuclear program beyond which the United States would be compelled to
act....

Obama, interviewed for Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on
broadcaster CBS, said he understands and agrees with Netanyahu's
insistence that Iran not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons as this
would threaten both countries, the world in general, and kick off an
arms race.

But Obama added: "When it comes to our national security decisions --
any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American
people. And I am going to block out -- any noise that's out there."...

Obama's contender for the presidency, Republican Mitt Romney, said this was no way to treat an ally.

The decision not to meet with Netanyahu, he said, also in an
interview with "60 minutes", "is a mistake and sends a message
throughout the Middle East that somehow we distance ourselves from our
friends and I think the exact opposite approach is what's necessary."

Obama’s new campaign flag...a point of controversy and
contempt no matter how you look at it.

Besides this flag being a deliberately hurtful and direct insult
to the hundreds of thousands of American men and women who fought and died for our
country and our freedom under ‘Old Glory,’ to have our ‘Stars and Stripes’ desecrated
like this shows a total disregard and disdain for the honor of our nation’s flag
and all she represents.

And while some say the new flag looks like the bloody
Benghazi embassy wall where possibly one of our people gripped the wall as he
was dying I beg to differ...for I believe the flag is a representation of The
Five Pillars of Islam.

After all, Barack HUSSEIN is a muslim, make NO mistake about
it, and make NO mistake that this abomination of a flag was a message sent to
us that islam is his way and soon will be ours...or so he hopes.

With the bastardized image of our nation’s flag showing the
Obama logo where the stars should be and five stripes, five what looks like a blood-smeared
representation of stripes, instead of the thirteen stripes our American flag
has proudly displayed, the truth is hidden in plain sight if people would just
open their eyes and look...really look.

Five stripes instead of thirteen...five stripes that
resemble the blood smears of a human hand...five stripes that in NO way
symbolize the original thirteen colonies as our flag intends...the number five
says it all for I believe these five stripes represent ’The Five Pillars of Islam.’

The Five Pillars of Islam represented by the five stripes on
his flag...the five basic acts in islam considered obligatory to believers, and
Barack Hussein Obama has done them all.

Pillar one: the shahada , the islamic creed known as kalmia meaning
the declaration of faith professing that there is only one God (allah) and that
muhammad is God's messenger.How many
times must Obama reiterate the words “my muslim faith” before people believe
him...how many times must it be told that on page 261 of the paperback edition
of his book, The Audacity of Hope” Obama writes, “I will stand with the muslims
should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”...how many times must
the Muslim Brotherhood be invited to the White House while the Israeli Prime
Minister is snubbed...how many times must Ramadan be honored while our National
Day of Prayer is cancelled.

Stripe one...

Pillar two: prayers (salat) ) said five times each day
according to the Sunna.How many times
has Obama suddenly slipped away during meetings and briefings...how many times
has he bowed his head in what others thought to be in contemplation...how many
times during private moments has he said these.

Stripe two...

Pillar three: fasting during Ramadan (sawm) as ritual compensation
for repentance.A given in the case of
Barack HUSSEIN Obama as he has much to repent for including the deaths of our embassy
personnel whose blood is on his hands...the apologizing for America’s military actions
during a time of war; the apologizing for American exceptionalism...the bowing
down to our enemies...the list is endless.

Stripe three...

Pillar four: alms giving (zakāt) is the practice of
charitable giving by muslims based on accumulated wealth and it’s
obligatory.While Obama, the one who
preaches about everyone else paying their fair share, does give to charity the
percentage he gives is quite small at 1% a few years ago to only 5% now.Nevertheless, this does meet the requirement
for giving to charity under pillar four.

Stripe four...

Pillar five: a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) for all
able-bodied muslims at least once in their lifetime. Obama went to Mecca in 2010 after he attended trhe G2 Summit.

Stripe 5...case closed.

And isn’t it odd that this abomination of a flag starts
appearing right around the time of the eleventh anniversary of September 11th,
just in time to dig the knife in deeper
into those still grieving for loved ones lost...and isn’t it odd that Obama along
with his muslim brethren blames the violence in the Middle Easton
a
YouTube video seen by so few until he appears on Pakistani TV bringing
the video to the forefront by giving a statement that his administration
had nothing
to do with it...and isn’t it odd that while he condones islam he looks
away to
all the death and destruction his muslim brethren cause...so odd yet it
puts
together the pieces of the puzzle staring us right in the face these
past almost
four years.

The puzzle is complete and comes full-circle with a flag...a
simple piece of cloth tells the man’s true intentions for our beloved
America...for our Judeo-Christian nation...for our ‘one nation under God’ but
only this time with that simple piece of cloth Barack HUSSEIN Obama has blatantly
told us that that God is to be allah.

This new Obama flag is a flag of islam and the flag of a man
who is the antithesis of everything our country stands for...of everything
our country holds dear...of everything our country demands of its president.

Now more than ever with the truth be known, November 6th can’t
come soon enough for me.

The Patriot Factor

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